CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

細節

A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF VENUS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With youthful idealizing features, her head turned and tilted slightly to her left, on a slender neck, her hair center parted with the wavy locks rolled back over her ears, bound in a fillet, and tied in a chignon at the nape of her neck, with two tresses pulled up over the crown of her head and fastened in a partially-preserved top-knot, her oval face with unarticulated almond-shaped eyes beneath gently-arching brows, slightly-parted lips, and a rounded chin
11 in. (28 cm.) high

來源

Private Collection, South America, 1961.

榮譽呈獻

Molly Morse Limmer

查閱狀況報告或聯絡我們查詢更多拍品資料

MLimmer@christies.com Tel: +1 212 636 2246

登入

瀏覽狀況報告

拍品專文

The position of the goddess' head, the downward gaze and the hairstyle, find close similarity to the Capitoline Venus, which is based on the 4th century B.C. prototype by Praxiteles. As the goddess of love and sexuality, Venus was always portrayed as the essence of beauty. Her aesthetic perfection is reflected here in the goddess' idealized face, graceful neck and sensuously tactile hair. For a similar example, now in Munich, see no. 411 in Delivorrias et al., "Aphrodite," LIMC.

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

榮譽呈獻

拍品專文

更多來自 <strong>古代文物</strong>